| k i s s e s | all the love for already being halfway through the week.
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Happy Wednesday lovely people.

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I know this is a time for festive cheer, but today I’m feeing overwhelmingly sad. I just want to be wrapped up at home with a book and my boyfriend but instead I have work and a LOT to get done when I get home. I feel homesick and tired and very ready for some major downtime - so if you’re feeling this way too you’re not alone ❤️

I LOVE Christmas decorations, but having a mini person running around, pulling at everything doesn’t make it easy to go all out and deck the halls... so this year we’ve gone for simple and minimal. Used an old dress belt on this £3.50 wreath, but want to add some sparkles and maybe pearls.
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How do you decorate your home? All out? Or just a sprinkling?! Xx

~ Santababy and her “reindeer ~
Yes look who came by this morning, tihi!
Today we actually have a lot of plans and that feels good. We also need to make a list for the last Christmas gifts, are you done with your shopping?
#babygirl#babysanta#momlife

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms” - Zen Shin.⁣
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When did life get so competitive? From the moment we are born our parents are encouraged to make sure we hit all our milestones on time. Your 20s and 30s are spent trying to be the best at something. Then you hit 40 and you realise you don’t need to sweat the small stuff. My current attitude is to not being the best human ever is “meh” 🤷‍♀️⁣
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🌸It’s kind of nice to just do your own thing, don’t you think?🌸⁣
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Blossom earrings in 14k gold-filled. Pink and purple are still available @littlevaultjewellery ⁣

B O O K S - My 2018 stack for #readingsuperlativeschallenge , minus a few I've lent out, given away or returned. I love how eclectic and multicultural a year it has been. 15 in total - I could have read many more if I read more in the day time. Unfortunately I tend to fall asleep when reading at night 😜 Scroll to see all the #bookcovers posted on various social media.
📕A book I loved - Eleanor Oliphant (Gail Honeyman)
📙A book I was disappointed in - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
📘A book that was beautifully written and stunningly illustrated with water colours - Sea Prayer (Khaled Hoseini).
📗A book that made me nostalgic - The Marble Collector (Cecelia Ahern)
📕A book that made me emotional - A Man called Ove (Frederik Backman).
📙A book that made me think differently - The Bride Stripped Bare (Anonymous)
📘My favourite cover - Erotic Stories of Punjabi Widows (Balli Kaur Jaswal)
📗A book with an Australian theme and mystery - The Dry (Jane Harper)
📚Books I enjoyed for light reading and still interesting plot lines - Liane Moriarty books x 2.
I also dipped into The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) which I will be picking up again once I finish my current read 'In Our Mad and Furious City' (Guy Gunaratne) - both presents from the wonderful @dinquay 📚

Yesterday we made the trek to one of the 7 Wonders of the World 😱 (did you know?!), the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River. It was quite the ordeal for only 45 minutes and 2kms (of over 24) in the underground river, BUT it was totally worth it!
It’s hard to describe and unfortunately no pictures inside turn out well enough to give it any justice. But basically, we were on a paddle boat that entered a small cave and as we paddled through, it opened up into multiple different sections with ceilings up to 65 meters high, tons of bats and different rock formations.
My favorite was the area called the Cathedral! It had rock formations that looked like Mother Mary, a nativity scene, the Last Supper, the Three Kings and more. So cool.
Today we’re off for some beach relaxation and island hopping tours in the northern area of Palawan. Can’t wait 🤗🌴🌊☀️

Happy Sunday Everyone!
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Into the Caves we goooo....
👣👀🗣🧗🏼‍♀️ We were 2kms under ground for about 2 hours. We saw tons of different rock formations, old coffins and skulls, swam in water pools, climbed with ropes, and squeezed into tiny holes. It was crazy!
A super fun, new and kinda scary 😬 experience that I was stoked to share with my main squuueeeze 🥰